About Us
The Yale Depression Research Program is comprised of a basic science laboratory, which attempts to examine the processes that lead to depression, focusing on understanding how stress contributes to changes in brain function; a clinical laboratory, which employs medical imaging techniques and pharmacological challenge paradigms to identify functional abnormalities in individuals suffering from mood disorders; and a research clinic, which examines the efficacy and safety of novel, experimental antidepressant treatments in human subjects. The mission of the program is to use our growing understanding of neuroscience to help identify novel approaches that can ultimately be brought to the clinic to improve the prevention and treatment of depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders.
Yale Depression Research Program Faculty & Staff
Clinical Program Faculty & Staff
Gerard Sanacora, PhD, MD
Principal Investigator
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Yale Depression Research Program
Co-Director, Yale New Haven Hospital Interventional Psychiatry Service
Robert Ostroff, MD
Medical Director Mood Disorders Unit Yale Psychiatric hospital
Co-Medical director Interventional Psychiatry Service Yale Psychiatric hospital
Basic Research Faculty & Staff
Gerard Sanacora, PhD, MD
Principal Investigator
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Yale Depression Research Program
Co-Director, Yale New Haven Hospital Interventional Psychiatry Service
Affiliated Faculty & Staff
Chadi Abdallah, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Interim Deputy Director, and Director of Neuroimaging, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD
Gustavo Adolfo Angarita-Africano, MD
Associate Research Scientist
Associate Inpatient Chief of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU)
Medical Director, Forensic Drug Diversion Clinic (ForDD)
Michael Howard Bloch, MD, MS
Associate Professor in the Child Study Center
Associate Director, Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program
Associate Director of the Tic and OCD Program
Irina Esterlis, PhD
Associate Professor Term
Director, Molecular Imaging Program, NCPTSD, VA
Director, Mood, Anxiety, and Cognitive Sciences Division